Fire is a seriously scary situation. Once it gets a hold it literally generates it's own enviroment and sucks in more air getting hotter and hotter. Fair play to your staff member, saved the day big time by paying attention and reacting to it.
I'm glad the fire was detected as soon as it was. The farm I worked on as a teeneager burned to the ground. The cows were all out to pasture that afternoon and every one was out in the fields plowing. By the time we saw the smoke and got back to the barn it was a true raging fire. We lost calves and all the buildings. It was a very sad day.
Kudo's to the employee who noticed and took the action to get the smoldering material out into a safe location. Glad you dodged that bullet. Out west here, the forest fires aren't typically out until there is a layer of snow in the ground. Even then, it's not unprecedented for a fire to literally smoulder all winter under the snow and rekindle come summer.
I am so thankful that you were able to get the fire event handled safely. It could have been caused by metal. But more likely it was just a stone that caused large sparks as it passes through the chopper. Maybe you have your custom guy just blow it onto a pile on the platform. Then after a few days push it into the bay. Extra work….but might be worth it to avoid another fire situation. I just truly enjoy watching you and your family work together on your beautiful dairy farm. It was very special and nice of you to give a shout out to your high school AG teacher. I feel the exact same way about my AG teacher as well. The larger new trees were a good investment. Your kids, and someday your grandkids will thank you. I am excited to see how your new approach to forage production turns out. Triticale was always a favorite of mine. And the bonus is that the cows do so well on it too. Have a blessed harvest time!
For filling your grain drill I would recommend a jib boom for your forks, it’s slides right in and has an adjustable boom with a hook. I use it to lift those seed bags high enough to fill my small grain bins. Also comes in handy in all sorts of other ways around the farm.
That's very true!! They work amazingly well...just have to be careful to not overload them...just a short extension reduces the load limit the machine can lift & stay stable...it changes incredibly quickly in short order !!
Ag Teacher's are the best! Glad you still help out with your former teacher. And your employee was on top of his game by noticing the smoldering hay. Great video, and I am glad you didn't lose anything but a little bit of hay, and maybe a few hours of the Reception. Congrats to your cousin
So happy you guys were alright and that there wasnt any significant damage, what a great spot by that employee he deserves a big pat on the back so lucky that he was able to catch that.
Amazing video Eric! Your AG teacher has had a lot of reach in his teachings. Great shout out. You have amazing employees. Unsung Heroes all. Very glad to hear you singing their praises. Your feed employee certainly made a positive difference! Glad you have good water pressure and a hose long enough to reach the burning hay. God's plan is always amazing! Thanks for the video.
Nice of you to give the shout out to your AG teacher. So glad that the fire was discovered quickly and there was no building damage. Great job for the feeding employee. Great video as usual and thanks till next time.
Any manure needs to sit at least six months and composted with leaves to break down the nitrogen,too much nitrogen is bad for newly planted trees.With the cow urine mixed with the waste to much nitrogen.
Eh, a bit of moo doo can do some voodoo for plants. I wouldn't bury the trees in it, but a few shovels full mixed in the dirt wouldn't hurt. Especially the drier stuff with the bedding in it.
Maple is a superb choice: beautiful tree type. The new house looks great already but will be even nicer with big trees in a few years. Also, I love the sound of the ping when the sledge hammer hits the metal fence post. Ting, Ting, Ting!
Been there, Had some hay stored in an old corn shed years ago and it went up quick when the wind carried a spark from my grandfather burning old mail in the fire pit over 90 feet away.
Jeepers!!! All of this for a gallon of milk!!! I wouldn't have guessed that in a million years!! I love these farmer channels! I would have never known. Thanks!!!
Nice looking trees for the yard. Whoa, that fire could have been worse, good thing you all acted quickly. Hope everything is okay with that situation. Good job, thanks for sharing, I hope you week goes well!
Well I'm glad that wasn't any worse than it was... Not a fun thing to come home to. I've have experienced hay fires and compost fires... both are very difficult to put out. Spread them out and drown them is what we did too.
See the hay on fire gave me a flash back to about a month ago when my neighbor lost a building along with some equipment, and a few calfs. Thank god for your employee for spotting the smoldering hay.
Your holes for your trees should be twice to three times as big as your root ball so that the dirt isn't too compact for the roots to start spreading. Nobody does that, but your trees will have better success at rooting faster. Unless the ground is already soft.
You will absolutely love your Autumn Blaze Maple tree. We planted two at our house in Colorado. We bought the same size and in 5 years we had some nice shade tree that just got better and better every year. They are now twenty years old and shade most of my yard.
What you could do with the seed bags that would be useful for other things is a davit or gantry crane with an electric hoist. A davit would be permanently mounted but a gantry you could roll around, though it would have to be pretty big to fit around the planter. Probably the most practical would be a davit at the outside corner of the shop you do the tractor maintenance. So it would be useful for maintenance jobs as well. Or, Richie Bros, look for a utility company digger. Truck mounted crane with augur. Those can go cheap. As long as everything works, the occasional use on the farm would be ok even if it's too clapped out for road duty.
Sure is nice to see all that manure and bedding go back into your soil! Maybe compost a pile to spread on your new lawn next spring. Good fortune with the fire!❤
Good job on not planting your trees too deep! I’m a plant health care specialist and 50% of young trees that I treat are suffering from symptoms of being planted too deep. That puts the fibrous roots in an anaerobic and sterile environment. I would have done some things different, but that was a better job than most folks do. Those trees will probably thrive.
Wow you guys are lucky, good job catching the fire to the nighttime feeder. The trees look nice and will grow nicely. maybe big enough to put a swing on for the kids.
I love those purple leaf Maple trees. They are beautiful year-round. The fire could have been really dangerous. I would think the person running the grinder would notice a change in engine pitch when it grinds up metal, but what do I know. Thanks for sharing.
Glad your employee noticed it and good job following up later. Have seen ground hay get hot and catch fire before and it is a struggle to get put out! Keep watch on the remainIng hay from that set of bales!
Oh man, thank God your worker caught it. Can't imagine what else might have happened if the commodity barn had gone up, and I don't want to. Glad this turned out as it did.
Hey Eric, your idea with using an auger from a gravity wagon, would work just as good straight out of those seed bags. You could maybe rent an auger seasonally since it would sit in the shed the rest of the time.
Wow Eric, that could have been very costly. Good thing the guy saw the flames. Buy him a chocolate milk. Didn't know the hay could catch fire from a piece of metal going through the chopper. Stay safe.
They used to have pallets with holes in the center with bags on them and they quit doing that because the bags got lopsided and fell off the pallet and people got hurt. Ask your seed dealer for a plastic pro box, dump your bags into the box and get a seed chute or a pro chute 1 or 2. Just be safe.
We had a similar situation. Our sawdust pile caught, the bay is in our dairy barn. Not going to point fingers but don’t let your wife park the lawnmower too close everyone. Glad your guy saw it-glad we saw it here at our place. Fires are not fun.
On the fire department the way we dealt with burning hay was to remove any exposures then allow the hay to burn. We let over a thousand bales burn, no damage outside of the loss of hay.
Way back in 1986, we had a quonset hut of hay combust. One Fire Dept Chief wanted to cut a hole in the roof to ventilate. Another Company Chief advised against that. Hay was removed, and building is still in use now, with no holes in it. Sometimes, people get carried away by authority and conventional training, and the latter doesn't always apply to Ag.
A local dairy about a mile from us lost its equipment shed in a fire a couple months back. Smoke could be seen for miles. They lost trucks, tractors, a combine but no livestock. Good thing someone saw the smoke in your barn, you could've lost a lot more than feed.
For the trees, don't be surprised over next few years they won't show much growth. Takes a larger tree longer to restart. But we have planted much larger and they can do great.
Grew up working on a dairy that had concrete trenches in freestalls that ran into a concrete pit. The manure was mixed with water, agitated and pumped out onto the fields through a huge sprinkler cannon that could be moved.
Hay fires are RIDICULOUSLY hard to put out. I've tried on old bedding hay. Thing relighted multiple times, it finished burning 2 days later. And I soaked it hard, multiple times.
Our neighbour got his barn burnt down to the ground due to hay self-ignite. We create round bales in our area and store them inside the barn on the second level (cows are in the first level). Even though he added salt and the moisture was within range, they caught fire and boy to that spread fast. Of course this happened during the night, but luckily we got all the animals out and managed to get the burning bales out and away from the houses. After that incident most farmers changed from round bales to square bales and stores them outside (they wrap them in plastic)
We had a haylage upright silo that burned some once and we didn't even know. We never saw smoke or flames but when we went to open it there was a top layer that was burnt black and smelled like smoke. It must have just smoldered at some point and thankfully never caught fully on fire.
Big shout out to the employee that saw the hay smouldering. Trees look good but may need lots of watering. Stay safe out there.
Hope you gave your guy a bonus, definitely saved yall some money
Fire is a seriously scary situation. Once it gets a hold it literally generates it's own enviroment and sucks in more air getting hotter and hotter. Fair play to your staff member, saved the day big time by paying attention and reacting to it.
Glad you didn’t loose your shed. Loosing buildings isn’t fun, we lost our cold storage shed a couple years ago to straight line wind.
Then again if it gets loose you can always try to ratchet it back down tight again
Kudos to your employee who did the right thing. Deserves a bonus 🤗
I'm glad the fire was detected as soon as it was.
The farm I worked on as a teeneager burned to the ground. The cows were all out to pasture that afternoon and every one was out in the fields plowing. By the time we saw the smoke and got back to the barn it was a true raging fire. We lost calves and all the buildings. It was a very sad day.
Kudo's to the employee who noticed and took the action to get the smoldering material out into a safe location. Glad you dodged that bullet. Out west here, the forest fires aren't typically out until there is a layer of snow in the ground. Even then, it's not unprecedented for a fire to literally smoulder all winter under the snow and rekindle come summer.
I am so thankful that you were able to get the fire event handled safely. It could have been caused by metal. But more likely it was just a stone that caused large sparks as it passes through the chopper. Maybe you have your custom guy just blow it onto a pile on the platform. Then after a few days push it into the bay. Extra work….but might be worth it to avoid another fire situation.
I just truly enjoy watching you and your family work together on your beautiful dairy farm. It was very special and nice of you to give a shout out to your high school AG teacher. I feel the exact same way about my AG teacher as well. The larger new trees were a good investment. Your kids, and someday your grandkids will thank you. I am excited to see how your new approach to forage production turns out. Triticale was always a favorite of mine. And the bonus is that the cows do so well on it too. Have a blessed harvest time!
Be careful out there!!!
I really like how your cows get excited when they see fresh bedding, they dance.
Give that worker who caught the fire a bonus
An extra can of Mountain Dew.
For filling your grain drill I would recommend a jib boom for your forks, it’s slides right in and has an adjustable boom with a hook. I use it to lift those seed bags high enough to fill my small grain bins. Also comes in handy in all sorts of other ways around the farm.
That's very true!! They work amazingly well...just have to be careful to not overload them...just a short extension reduces the load limit the machine can lift & stay stable...it changes incredibly quickly in short order !!
Give those trees a nice long drink of B 12s and a 5lb bag per tree of oyster shell, for slow release of minerals and calcium.
Ag Teacher's are the best! Glad you still help out with your former teacher. And your employee was on top of his game by noticing the smoldering hay. Great video, and I am glad you didn't lose anything but a little bit of hay, and maybe a few hours of the Reception. Congrats to your cousin
So happy you guys were alright and that there wasnt any significant damage, what a great spot by that employee he deserves a big pat on the back so lucky that he was able to catch that.
Amazing video Eric! Your AG teacher has had a lot of reach in his teachings. Great shout out. You have amazing employees. Unsung Heroes all. Very glad to hear you singing their praises. Your feed employee certainly made a positive difference! Glad you have good water pressure and a hose long enough to reach the burning hay. God's plan is always amazing! Thanks for the video.
Nice of you to give the shout out to your AG teacher. So glad that the fire was discovered quickly and there was no building damage. Great job for the feeding employee. Great video as usual and thanks till next time.
Jeez, a smoldering fire. Not at all the life of a Dairy farmer that I imagined.
Glad you caught it!
I would be tempted to put some of that dry manure in to backfill the maples.
Any manure needs to sit at least six months and composted with leaves to break down the nitrogen,too much nitrogen is bad for newly planted trees.With the cow urine mixed with the waste to much nitrogen.
Eh, a bit of moo doo can do some voodoo for plants. I wouldn't bury the trees in it, but a few shovels full mixed in the dirt wouldn't hurt. Especially the drier stuff with the bedding in it.
Maple is a superb choice: beautiful tree type. The new house looks great already but will be even nicer with big trees in a few years.
Also, I love the sound of the ping when the sledge hammer hits the metal fence post. Ting, Ting, Ting!
Bad stuff happens to the best of us. Glad everything worked out. Good luck moving forward.
Been there, Had some hay stored in an old corn shed years ago and it went up quick when the wind carried a spark from my grandfather burning old mail in the fire pit over 90 feet away.
Jeepers!!! All of this for a gallon of milk!!! I wouldn't have guessed that in a million years!! I love these farmer channels! I would have never known. Thanks!!!
Nice looking trees for the yard. Whoa, that fire could have been worse, good thing you all acted quickly. Hope everything is okay with that situation. Good job, thanks for sharing, I hope you week goes well!
You have great hand eye coordination loading the manure spreader that fast. My eyes almost couldn't keep up. 😮
Those maples will turn Red at times, always good to have some trees around.
Well I'm glad that wasn't any worse than it was... Not a fun thing to come home to. I've have experienced hay fires and compost fires... both are very difficult to put out. Spread them out and drown them is what we did too.
See the hay on fire gave me a flash back to about a month ago when my neighbor lost a building along with some equipment, and a few calfs. Thank god for your employee for spotting the smoldering hay.
That fire is real scary. Good work from your guy.
Add some dawn dish detergent to your water and this will allow the water to get down in the hay further and prevent other flare-ups.
Where the hay is that is a safe place.
Just allow the hay to burn.
Your holes for your trees should be twice to three times as big as your root ball so that the dirt isn't too compact for the roots to start spreading. Nobody does that, but your trees will have better success at rooting faster. Unless the ground is already soft.
You will absolutely love your Autumn Blaze Maple tree. We planted two at our house in Colorado. We bought the same size and in 5 years we had some nice shade tree that just got better and better every year. They are now twenty years old and shade most of my yard.
great video brother from the imperial county California 👍👍🇺🇲 and stay safe.
Big shout out to the employee that saw the hay smouldering
What you could do with the seed bags that would be useful for other things is a davit or gantry crane with an electric hoist. A davit would be permanently mounted but a gantry you could roll around, though it would have to be pretty big to fit around the planter. Probably the most practical would be a davit at the outside corner of the shop you do the tractor maintenance. So it would be useful for maintenance jobs as well. Or, Richie Bros, look for a utility company digger. Truck mounted crane with augur. Those can go cheap. As long as everything works, the occasional use on the farm would be ok even if it's too clapped out for road duty.
Keep them watered. More than you think
My mom taught me to water the tree when you're halfway backfilled to eliminate air patches. I've had decent success planting trees.
Your employee deserves a big time bonus!
Very lucky someone spotted the smoking hay. Glad no damage. Love the new trees. They will be beautiful by next year. Have a good week.
Sure is nice to see all that manure and bedding go back into your soil! Maybe compost a pile to spread on your new lawn next spring.
Good fortune with the fire!❤
Good job on not planting your trees too deep! I’m a plant health care specialist and 50% of young trees that I treat are suffering from symptoms of being planted too deep. That puts the fibrous roots in an anaerobic and sterile environment. I would have done some things different, but that was a better job than most folks do. Those trees will probably thrive.
good job - trees appear to be planted at optimal depth. These farm boys know a thing or two about growing plants,
Great catch! No fire damage to the building! Nice trees! ❤❤❤❤
Wow you guys are lucky, good job catching the fire to the nighttime feeder. The trees look nice and will grow nicely. maybe big enough to put a swing on for the kids.
Scary. You handled that like a pro
I love those purple leaf Maple trees. They are beautiful year-round. The fire could have been really dangerous. I would think the person running the grinder would notice a change in engine pitch when it grinds up metal, but what do I know. Thanks for sharing.
Glad your employee noticed it and good job following up later. Have seen ground hay get hot and catch fire before and it is a struggle to get put out! Keep watch on the remainIng hay from that set of bales!
Wow! Glad you caught that in time
Oh man, thank God your worker caught it. Can't imagine what else might have happened if the commodity barn had gone up, and I don't want to. Glad this turned out as it did.
Make sure everyone that works there can run the skid steers for things like this! Glad the barn didn’t get touched!
Maybe now is a good time to update your fire fighting capabilities. Extra pumps, standpipes and hoses for all the sheds, including your new home.
WGIDH fire double in size every minute glad you got it before hand
Hey Eric, your idea with using an auger from a gravity wagon, would work just as good straight out of those seed bags. You could maybe rent an auger seasonally since it would sit in the shed the rest of the time.
Wow Eric, that could have been very costly. Good thing the guy saw the flames. Buy him a chocolate milk. Didn't know the hay could catch fire from a piece of metal going through the chopper. Stay safe.
Glad you were able to stop it / catch it!
good catch bud. Great video Eric.. glad y'all were able to put the fire out in time. Thank you for the video.
The Lord lead the employee to the fire to put it out. Great job putting the fire out.
God’s protection! You run a very nice farm. 👍
God? Sounds like the employee saved the day, not god.
Glad nothing major was lost!
A nice row of maples along the driveway nicely spaced apart would look awesome. Just plant a couple every year.
So happy for you that you got that fire in time as it could have done real damage.
So glad all turn out good
That's a real wake up call. Man I am glad you got it. That is some crazy stuff. Good job.
They used to have pallets with holes in the center with bags on them and they quit doing that because the bags got lopsided and fell off the pallet and people got hurt. Ask your seed dealer for a plastic pro box, dump your bags into the box and get a seed chute or a pro chute 1 or 2. Just be safe.
Glad you got it put out without losing anything besides a little hay !
We had a similar situation. Our sawdust pile caught, the bay is in our dairy barn. Not going to point fingers but don’t let your wife park the lawnmower too close everyone. Glad your guy saw it-glad we saw it here at our place. Fires are not fun.
On the fire department the way we dealt with burning hay was to remove any exposures then allow the hay to burn.
We let over a thousand bales burn, no damage outside of the loss of hay.
Way back in 1986, we had a quonset hut of hay combust. One Fire Dept Chief wanted to cut a hole in the roof to ventilate. Another Company Chief advised against that. Hay was removed, and building is still in use now, with no holes in it. Sometimes, people get carried away by authority and conventional training, and the latter doesn't always apply to Ag.
A local dairy about a mile from us lost its equipment shed in a fire a couple months back. Smoke could be seen for miles. They lost trucks, tractors, a combine but no livestock. Good thing someone saw the smoke in your barn, you could've lost a lot more than feed.
Glad your employee saw the smoldering hay!
That old tractor got some juice
6:51 A naturally occurring hybrid maple that is the result of a cross between Acer rubrum (red maple) and Acer saccharinum (silver maple).
thank God all was ok. a lot of people can go about their work not paying attention so great work by your feeding guy who spotted this
Y’all were really lucky with that hay fire.
Wow, glad to see your farm is doing okay after this!
Boy! It is hard to see on the skid loader.
Wow super close one fellas glad it turned out good God was watching that day
Great employee. Your team was very very lucky 😊
We have an auger thats on the back of the 750 drill that runs off tractor hydraulics. Pretty slick for loading totes of cover crop!
Wow! That was a scary situation 😱 Thankfully it was spotted in time and potential disaster averted…. Phew! 👍
For the trees, don't be surprised over next few years they won't show much growth. Takes a larger tree longer to restart. But we have planted much larger and they can do great.
Good thing someone noticed it, I just had a buddy lose his chopper yesterday to fire up here in Vermont
Lucky for good employees
Yikes! Crisis averted.
Grew up working on a dairy that had concrete trenches in freestalls that ran into a concrete pit. The manure was mixed with water, agitated and pumped out onto the fields through a huge sprinkler cannon that could be moved.
Hay fires are RIDICULOUSLY hard to put out. I've tried on old bedding hay. Thing relighted multiple times, it finished burning 2 days later. And I soaked it hard, multiple times.
Great awesome video Eric. Great neighbors to tell u ,
I'll get you a fog nozzle. Flat it worked out safe.
Great that u were able to contain the fire urself
You should use a two handle post driver instead of a sledge hammer.
God be with you! Farm on
maybe worth investing in some sprinkler heads and some pipe. If there is a higher risk in that area.
Smart to stake up the trees with metal because of the shallow roots. Otherwise, you will be looking out the back window all winter.
2:50 So this is where chocolate comes from..
Our neighbour got his barn burnt down to the ground due to hay self-ignite. We create round bales in our area and store them inside the barn on the second level (cows are in the first level). Even though he added salt and the moisture was within range, they caught fire and boy to that spread fast. Of course this happened during the night, but luckily we got all the animals out and managed to get the burning bales out and away from the houses. After that incident most farmers changed from round bales to square bales and stores them outside (they wrap them in plastic)
We had a haylage upright silo that burned some once and we didn't even know. We never saw smoke or flames but when we went to open it there was a top layer that was burnt black and smelled like smoke. It must have just smoldered at some point and thankfully never caught fully on fire.
Hi Eric happy the fire didn't cause any damage.
Spread it out wet it by hand to get the hot spots down. Then set a sprinkler on it to soak. Like you said once it gets going its hard to put out
Good Employee, glad it wasn't worse.
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